Monday, June 25, 2012

Legal History at SHAFR

Posted by
Mary L. Dudziak

There is much legal history at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, to be held in Hartford, CT, later this week. Clara Altman, our Facebook Coordinator, is presenting a paper, on a panel chaired by former Guest Blogger Chris Capozzola -- who also comments on another panel. John Fabian Witt is also serving as a commentator. At Thursday evening's plenary at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, which takes up an important diplomatic history text, Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations: Reflecting on the 1991 and 2004 Editions While Looking Forward, I plan to discuss the ways that legal history and foreign relations history need each other. Panels of interest include:

Thursday, June 28

Panel 11: Connecting Foreign Relations and Domestic Law in the Early Republic

Chair: [I will be substituting for Lauren A. Benton, New York University]

“The Means of Preventing Disputes with Foreign Nations”: The Federal Courts and Foreign Relations in the 1790s, Kevin Arlyck, New York University

Panel 24: Perspectives on Imperial Rule: The United States in the Philippines in the Early Twentieth Century

Chair: Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Legal Archipelago of U.S. Occupation: American Military Justice and the Colonial State in the Philippines, 1898-1902, Clara Altman, Brandeis University

The Dilemma of “Accountable” State-building: Establishing Education Institutions in Colonial Taiwan versus the Philippines in the Early Twentieth Century, Reo Matsuzaki, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University

Make Trade, Not War: Marketplaces and Market Relations in the U.S. Colonial Philippines, Rebecca Tinio McKenna, University of Notre Dame

Codifying Religion: The Bureau of the Census, the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes and American Imperial Rule in the Philippines, 1901-1913, Karine Walther, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar

Comment: Anne Foster, Indiana State University

Panel 28: Policing the Globe: International Law Enforcement and Drug Control in the Age of American Empire

Chair: William B. McAllister, Office of the Historian, Department of State, and Georgetown University

Organizing Violence in East Asia: The Philippines Under Ferdinand Marcos, Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Harvard University

Locating the Origins of the “War on Drugs” in the Revolutionary Aftermath of World War II, Suzanna J. Reiss, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Junkies in the Shining City: Exceptionalism and Addiction in the American Century, Matt Pembleton, American University